Tex. Health & Safety Code § 534.109 · Subchapter B-1. COMMUNITY-BASED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall evaluate a local intellectual and developmental disability authority's compliance with its contract to ensure the provision of specific services to priority populations.
(b) If, by a date set by the commissioner, a local intellectual and developmental disability authority fails to comply with its contract to ensure the provision of services to the satisfaction of the commissioner, the department may impose a sanction as provided by the applicable contract rule until the dispute is resolved. The department shall notify the authority in writing of the department's decision to impose a sanction.
(c) A local intellectual and developmental disability authority may appeal the department's decision to impose a sanction on the authority. The executive commissioner by rule shall prescribe the appeal procedure.
(d) The filing of a notice of appeal stays the imposition of the department's decision to impose a sanction except when an act or omission by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority is endangering or may endanger the life, health, welfare, or safety of a person.
(e) While an appeal under this section is pending, the department may limit general revenue allocations to a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to monthly distributions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.534.htm
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